Hi guys,

may I ask for some help please to translate properly "a few decades ago" in Modern Standard Arabic?

A few decades ago there was more work, do you agree with me O' sister?
من بعضا عقود كان هناك اكثر من العمل، هل تتّفقين معي يا اخت؟

Thanks in advance
Aurélien

 

hi aurelien,
this is my attempt:
عقود قليلية من قبل كان هناك عمل اكثر ,هل تثفقين معي يا اختي

 

صياغة أخرى
منذ بضعة عقود مضت

 

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته يا بكر

thank you for answering but I have got a doubt..
are you sure that

means "decades ago"..
Because unless I am mistaken it means "since few decades" which is similar but it is not exactly "decades ago"...

Am I wrong?

Aurélien

 

منذ can translate into English as "since", "ago", or even "for". There is not a neat word-for-word correlation between the two languages.

 

I agree.